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PATENT QFFICEQ EVERETT HUSSEY, OF HUDSON,MASSACHUSETTS;

PORTABLE FOLDING HAM M'OCK-STANDQ SPECIFICATION forming pfu'tbf Letters pa ent No. 382,648, dated May a, 1888.

Application filed September 24, 1887. Serial No. 250,576. (No model) ToaZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, EVERETT HUssEY, of Hudson, in the county of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvementin Portable Folding Hammock-Stands, which will, in connection with the accompanying drawings, be hereinafter fully described, and specifically defined in the appended claim. In said drawings, Figure 1 is a top plan view of a hammock-stand embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same. Fig. 3 is an end elevation of Figs. 1 and 2.

My invention relates to folding portable I 5 hammock-stands which are adapted to be covered by an awning; andit consists in features of novelty, hereinafter fully described, and pointed out in the claim.

Referring again to the drawings, A A repv2o resent the oblique end standards pivotally secured together by bolts a, while B is a short standard interposed between A A and there secured in place by said bolt a.

G G are oblique arms, each bolted to standard B at b and to the upper ends of A A at 0, these five parts constituting an end frame of my hammock-stand, such end being duplicated, as shown.

D represents the central longitudinal bar or ridge-pole, which at its ends is rigidly attached to the end frames by means of the metallic T- plate d or any suitable means. Between the end frames there are arranged on each side of D the requisite number of arms 3 5 G of the same shape and projection outward as arms 0, and to the outer end of bars 0 C the longitudinal bars E are secured, as shown,

said longitudinal bars'D E and the transverse bars 0 G constituting also the supporting-frame 0 of awning F. At each end of the support is a braceyo', which may be of wood or mctal,which at the respective ends thereof are secured to standards B and ridge-pole D, and in each said a brace is secured a hook, j, upon which the 5 hammock G is supported.

Central bar, D, is shown as formed in two pieces for compactness in time of transportation, and by means of fish-plates e is equally as strong as it formed of but one piece, and bars E are in two pieces, for the same reason as is bar D, and as the strain from the awning is downward upon bars E, I employthe strap: hinges g to connect the two parts, as such means I, of connection facilitates the folding together of the two parts of the bar.

I have shown parts B, G, G, D, and E as secured together by angle-irons d, f, and h, and screw-bolts as a convenient means of putting together or taking apart; but other well: known means may be employed with more or less convenience.

It willbe obvious that my stand may be packed into aspace not greater in length than that of standards A, and that by the compact Y folding of all the parts, including parts A and B of the end frames, it will when packed 0ccupy but a comparatively small space.

I deemit proper to add that bars 0 not only contribute to the support of bars E,and through these bars to bars 0 and to the support of awn- 7o ing F, but by this connection with parts A and B they render the end frames rigid in a lateral direction.

I claim as my inVention- The ends consisting of the oblique standards A A, the short standard B, all-three pivoted together by bolt a, and the oblique arms 0 O, bolted to the standards A A B, in combination with the central ridge-pole, D, made in two pieces and secured together by the fishplates 6 e, the longitudinal side bars, E E, hinged in their middles at g, and the arms 0, secured to the pole D and bars E E, and the braces 75, having the hammock-hooks j,'the whole forming a rigid and yet separable and portable frame, as set forth.

EVERETT HUSSEY.

Witnesses:

JAMES T. JosLIN, RALPH E. J OSLIN. 

